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For our conference we would like to have some extra fields for the abstract submission page. In particular, for the author details. Is it possible to insert extra fields such as the author's address (in addition to institution) and the author's country?

This will currently require PHP modifications, although we hope to add support for easy addition of metadata fields in a future release. If you're interested, I can roughly describe the necessary changes.

Use the "affiliation" and "add_affiliation" fields as an example for your new "my_new_column" and "add_my_new_column" fields. Search for "affiliation" and duplicate or extend the code to include the new fields. You'll need to make changes to the following files:

admin/editpaper.php

admin/invitedspeakers.php

admin/reviews.php

papers.php

reviews.php

schedule.php

search.php

viewabstract.php

viewappendix.php

viewbio.php

viewpaper.php

submitform.php

validate.php

comments.php

admin/masterlist.php

oai/include/functions.inc.php

rst/config.inc.php

rst/functions.inc.php

Of course, some of the above scripts might not need to be changed, depending on what behavior you'd like (i.e. whether or not it'll be included in OAI extracts, etc.)

The reason there are two table columns associated with a new field -- and this is a hare-brained design decision that someone made a long time ago -- is that the first column contains the value for the first author, and the second column contains the value for the second and subsequent authors, separated by newlines. Again, just follow the code examples for affiliation and rest assured that OCS 2.0 will not suffer from this.